Interests

Mid-Palaeozoic
Palaeobotany

Palaeoecosystems

Early embryophytes

Plant phylogeny

Phytoterrestrialisation

Academia

BA (Cantab)

Sc.D (Cantab)

Hon ScD (Dublin)

Affiliations

Professor Edwards is a Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff
University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, an honorary Fellow at the University of
Wales, Swansea, a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of
America.

For the last 45 years, I have described
Silurian- Devonian fossils that record the early history of plant life on land,
particularly concentrating on their anatomy based on a wide variety of types of
preservation. This aids in their identification and hence relationships, plus
detection of adaptations, including biochemical ones, to the terrestrial
environment and hence their palaeoecophysiology. Of further major interest is the effects of
early land vegetation on the lithosphere and atmosphere and this has led to
colloboration with palaeozoologists and palynologists on ecosystem
development as well as chemists and
neobotanists.

People

We are driven by creativity and curiosity to push back the frontiers of knowledge.

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